Steve398
... another retired Black Rat.
This year I had a new water pump fitted as there was coolant dripping out onto the garage floor, and this appears to have solved the problem.
However I had been attempting to check it once a week at home, or more often on tour, but it's a devil of a job to see the fluid level either from the top, via the little service hatch thing on the fairing, or by removing the sidepod, because the metalwork gets in the way. Plus the damn liquid is pale blue, which doesn't show up well on a white opaque bottle.
So, and the reason for the post, I wondered if I could find a car washer bottle lid which has a plastic dip-stick attached that would fit the reservoir bottle... then it would just be a matter of removing said lid and inspecting the dip-stick.
What do you reckon, or don't you bother to check the coolant level?
MODS - I didn't know which section to put this in so please feel free to move it!
However I had been attempting to check it once a week at home, or more often on tour, but it's a devil of a job to see the fluid level either from the top, via the little service hatch thing on the fairing, or by removing the sidepod, because the metalwork gets in the way. Plus the damn liquid is pale blue, which doesn't show up well on a white opaque bottle.
So, and the reason for the post, I wondered if I could find a car washer bottle lid which has a plastic dip-stick attached that would fit the reservoir bottle... then it would just be a matter of removing said lid and inspecting the dip-stick.
What do you reckon, or don't you bother to check the coolant level?
MODS - I didn't know which section to put this in so please feel free to move it!
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